poet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

WordNet

Po"et noun
Etymology
F. poëte, L. poëta, fr. Gr. , fr. to make. Cf. Poem.
Definitions
  1. One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
    The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.
    A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden.

Webster 1913